State Theater for Children and Youth [Orel]
type: Item
label: State Theater for Children and Youth
description: Theatre building in Oryol, Russia
EUTA building identifier: 3746
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Russia
City: Orel
Wikidata source: Q4336882
GPS: Point(36.0673 52.963)
Web: teatrorel.ru
opening date: 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 5799
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1799 as a magistrate building. Severely damaged in World War II. 1946-1949 rebuilt by B. V. Antipov and V. V. Ovchinnikov. Named in honour of the Russian writer, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgeniev (1818-1883). Since 1981 used as a youth theatre (Teatr Yunovo Zritelya). Later renamed Orlovsky gosudarstvenny teatr dlya detey i molodozhi 'Svobodnoye prostranstvo' (Oryol State Theater for Children and Youth Free Space).